taken 2 years ago, near to Hartsop, Cumbria, England
Path to Dovedale
The car park at Cow bridge has that essential quality of anywhere I choose to leave a vehicle - it's free. Consequently, it is also likely to be full very early in the morning. Today we won, and this footpath is the one that led us onwards (and eventually upwards) up Dovedale to a traverse of Fairfield (a mountain I seem to have climbed or descended in pretty much every available direction).
My father remembers this house in Hartsop as being just up the lane from Thorn House, a similar building of the mid 17 century; possibly this house was owned by a bishop (C of E): this was in about 1940.